Big Karst Chambers

Examples, Genesis, Stability

Eric Gilli (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XII, 201 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-58731-4 (ISBN)

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This book documents and describes 32 natural caves from France and around the globe that have a width larger than 50 m, including data on the largest underground chamber in the world: Sarawak Chamber. Artificial caves are not able to be constructed at these volumes and most of these naturally forming chambers had never been surveyed before with little geological data available. Methodologies for studying these large volume Karst chambers are described and for each site, a survey, a geomorphological sketch, a description and photographic images are provided. The process of the mechanical transportation by underground running water, of an insoluble but erodible rock located below thick limestone roofs via digging, scouring and racking are explained through these example to clarify the genesis of the largest volumes in the world. The purpose of this study was to estimate whether these natural contexts could be transposed to the digging of artificial caverns to accommodate underground nuclear power plants. Indeed, the comparison of the effects of the Lucens nuclear accident with those of Chernobyl and Fukushima shows the whole interest of an underground solution. These examples of natural chambers indisputably show that this is possible.

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Presentation.- Monographs.- Comparative Analysis and Synthesis.- Application to the Digging of Artificial Chambers.- Study of Sarawak Chamber.- The future of Underground Plants.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Advances in Karst Science
Zusatzinfo	XII, 201 p. 230 illus., 100 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 279 mm
Gewicht	769 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
Schlagworte	caving • Chamber Genesis • hydrogeology • racking • Underground Chambers • Underground scouring
ISBN-10	3-030-58731-2 / 3030587312
ISBN-13	978-3-030-58731-4 / 9783030587314
Zustand	Neuware